Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Glasgow, MT

Glasgow is an incorporated city and the county seat of Valley County in northeastern Montana, near the Canadian border.

Glasgow was founded in 1887 as a railroad town along James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway, and local tradition holds that it was named when Hill and a local railroader spun a globe and a finger landed on Glasgow, Scotland.

The 2020 census counted 3,202 residents in Glasgow, with 1,405 households and 1,614 housing units.

Though only Montana's 23rd most populous city, Glasgow is the most populous place for more than 110 miles in any direction and serves as the regional hub for a vast stretch of eastern Montana.

A 2018 Washington Post analysis using Oxford University data identified Glasgow as the 'middle of nowhere' of the contiguous United States — the town of more than 1,000 residents farthest, about 4.5 hours' drive, from any metropolitan area of more than 75,000 people.

Glasgow grew during the 1930s when President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized construction of the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River, which became a major source of employment for the Glasgow area.

During World War II the Glasgow Army Airfield hosted B-17 Flying Fortress bombardment squadrons and, starting in December 1944, a German prisoner-of-war camp; part of the site is now Glasgow Valley County Airport.

In the 1960s Glasgow's population rose to about 6,400 because of the nearby Glasgow Air Force Base, a Strategic Air Command base housing B-52 bombers, but fell to about half that size by 1990 after the base closed in 1969.

Glasgow nestles in the Milk River valley, with the river meandering along its south side, and lies 18 miles north of Fort Peck Lake, the fifth-largest artificial lake in the United States.

Both Amtrak and the National Weather Service maintain facilities in Glasgow that serve the surrounding region.